It’s Friday, April 2nd, 2021…but before we begin, NRO details the ultimate insult to those paying teacher salaries, as,…

For San Diego Parents, Prioritizing Migrants for In-Person Instruction Is ‘a Slap in the Face

 

In the San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD), teachers are being permitted to volunteer to teach migrant children in person this week, while their own public-school students — who remain at home, stuck in virtual learning — are on spring break.

Meanwhile, reports indicate that there have been 82 positive cases of COVID-19 detected among the 700 migrant children detained in the county, a far higher rate than the overall rate of COVID-19 cases in the county at large — even as COVID remains the ostensible reason that San Diego public-school students continue to learn remotely.

The SDUSD spokeswoman has not responded to questions about the COVID-19 rate at the facility or its consequences for San Diego’s public-school teachers who will be teaching there in person…”

Question: The hypocrisy and dereliction of duty aside, if the Wuhan virus was even remotely as deadly as we’re instructed to believe, why on earth would this be permitted, let alone encouraged?  Answer: It would not…because it isn’t.

In a related item, Townhall.com‘s Reagan McCarthy reports…

Wisconsin Supreme Court Delivers a Blow to Gov. Tony Evers’ Pandemic Mandate

 

The Wisconsin Supreme Court delivered a blow to Democrat Governor Tony Evers (D-WI) by striking down his statewide mask mandate; the court concluded that Evers overstepped his executive authority by authorizing a renewal of the mandate unilaterally

Justice Brian Hagedorn wrote that the court believes that Evers did not act in compliance of the law by issuing mandates that exceed his authority as governor. “The question in this case is not whether the Governor acted wisely; it is whether he acted lawfully. We conclude he did not.”

Wednesday’s ruling is not the first setback for Evers regarding COVID restrictions. In May, the court struck down the governor’s “safer at home” edict, ruling that he did not have the power to issue such an executive order…”

Not to beat a dead horse, but as Tucker records in words coming from the very mouths of those owned lock, stock and barrel by Beijing…

 

…none of this is about controlling a virus which we’ve no doubt originated, either be accident or design, in a weapons lab in Wuhan, China.  It’s all about controlling YOU!

Now, here’s The Gouge!

Since we’re on the subject of the scamdemic, Best of the Web‘s Jim Freeman calls out the Duo of Doom:

OK, Doomer

Government experts still advocate restrictions, ignore collateral damage.

 

Maybe it’s too much to hope that government health experts have learned something in the past year about the massive unintended consequences of lockdowns and the paucity of evidence demonstrating their effectiveness. But Monday’s White House teleconference with the Biden Covid team could almost have been mistaken for a March 2020 event—complete with government doctors stoking fear, urging restrictions on liberty and not even bothering to address costs and benefits.

This column understands that infectious disease specialists focus on infectious disease. But roughly $4.5 trillion of new federal debt later, following a 29% surge in commercial bankruptcy filings, a rash of delayed non-Covid medical treatments, a lost year of classroom instruction for many students who will never get it back, and skyrocketing health claims related to self-harm among adolescents—especially in jurisdictions that maintained harsh lockdowns—it is not too much to ask disease specialists to consider the societal impact of their recommendations. Outside government, doctors generally understand they have a duty to first do no harm. Government doctors also have a basic responsibility to ensure that their public health proposals yield net benefits for society, and do not focus on one risk while ignoring all others.

It’s well past time for government doctors to recognize there are consequences to their recommendations…”

This forward from Speed pretty much sums up our thoughts on the subject:

Next, courtesy of Townhall.com, Ann Coulter accurately describes the defendant in the ongoing sham trial in Minneapolis as…

Derek Chauvin, Human Sacrifice

 

In modern America, we periodically offer up white men as human sacrifices to the PC gods. Among our benefactions: Jake Gardner, Kyle Rittenhouse, Darren Wilson, the Duke lacrosse players, University of Virginia fraternity members, Stacey Koon and Mark Fuhrman. The rest of us just keep our heads down and pray we won’t be next.

At least the Duke and UVA human offerings were sufficiently upper-crust to have a few journalists and lawyers defending them. But policemen, bar owners, military veterans and a Midwest teenager? Definitely not our crowd, darling.

Currently, Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is on trial for killing George Floyd by kneeling on his neck, as it appeared in cellphone videos. You may remember something about this: It’s why America had to burn in 2020. But the chief medical examiner’s report establishes that, however else Floyd died, it wasn’t from Chauvin’s knee. Oopsie! I guess it wasn’t absolutely essential that our country go through eight months of looting, riots and mostly peaceful arsons…”

The reference above in the meme we created is to a video of a May 2019 encounter with Minneapolis police in which Floyd exhibited precisely the same behavior he did 12 months later.

Hell’s bells, even Andy McCarthy, who to date has been, in our opinion, inexplicably hard on Chauvin, is beginning to smell the bullsh*t.

Here’s the juice: We all know no lawyer should ever ask a question to which he or she doesn’t already know the answer, so if we’re Chauvin’s attorney, we’d have already investigated whether Floyd COULD have been killed by the 140-lb. defendant kneeling on the side of his neck.  And, having duplicated the event down to the second, if the results mirrored the conclusions of the autopsy, demonstrate it in court, in front of the jury.

We turn now to eight more offerings specially selected for inquiring minds:

(1). Filling in for Jim Geraghty at the Morning Jolt, Alexandra DeSanctis informs us a CNN news writer denies the biological reality of sex at birth, noting “To pretend that we as a society are incapable of knowing whether a child is a male or female at birth is lunacy. More than that, it’s lunacy in service of the left-wing project to redefine sex and gender as being entirely a creation of each individual, totally untethered from any biological or metaphysical reality.”

(2). As you’ve likely heard, the man accused of beating an Asian American woman during a broad-daylight hate-crime attack in New York City on Monday was on lifetime parole for murdering his mother years earlier in front of his 5-year-old sister.  Demented violence which of course, at least according to Bill DeBlowmeo, is somehow attributable to Trump:

(3). As Katie Pavlich notes at Townhall.comJoe Biden’s ‘infrastructure’ plan is awfully long on “equity” and pretty short on infrastructure.

This isn’t an infrastructure plan, it’s central planning, aka Socialism.  And we all know how well THAT‘s worked out whenever it’s been implemented.

(4). FOX reports the cause of Tiger Woods’ car crash has been determined, but may never be revealed.  Why?  Is this not public information?  Taxpayer-funded emergency services responded to the accident, so why should the facts surrounding Tiger’s auto accident be withheld while the circumstances of Kobe’s helo crash were freely and publicly disseminated?  We can only assume it’s because Kobe wasn’t at the controls…and is dead.  Guess some rich and famous animals are more equal than others, not to mention the rest of us.

(5). Politico is reporting the White House knew more than a week ago workers at the West Baltimore facility of Emergent BioSolutions, Johnson & Johnson’s contractor, ruined 15 million doses of J&J’s Wuhan virus vaccine by mixing it with ingredients from another vaccine.  Two thoughts immediately come to mind: (i) Funny 46* didn’t mention it when it happened; and (ii) West Baltimore…drugs…what could go wrong?!?

(6).  Courtesy of the WSJ and Washington Examiner respectively, Kim Strassel and Byron York weigh in on the hypocrisy and craven capitulation which characterizes the contemporary corporate class’s response to common-sense voter ID reforms.  Hat tip to James Nichols for the York piece.

(7). Writing at The Washington Free Beacon, Andrew Stiles suggests 46*’s bloodthirsty, floor-pooping canine companion not only offers a window into his soul, but experts say his dog problems raise serious questions about Biden’s ability to lead.  Does anyone seriously doubt, had this been The Donald’s dog, such analysis would NOT have been satire?

(8). Speaking of satire, The Babylon Bee is reporting Arkansas has passed a controversial bill which bans chopping off kids’ legs if they think they’re a mermaid.

Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:

Then there’s these from Speed…

…and Balls Cotton…

…along with one from Major Jon:

Finally, we’ll call it a wrap with another installment of News of the Bizarre, as a…

19-pound cat, missing for 28 days, is found in neighbor’s chimney

 

A Washington state woman said her 19-pound cat was missing for 28 days before being found in a place she never considered the portly feline could fit — her neighbor’s chimney. Caitlyn Wertenberger said the house next door to her Union Gap home was vacant and under construction when Piper, her 19-pound tuxedo cat, went missing from her house.

She said that 28 days later, after her new neighbors had moved into the home, one of them told her they had been hearing meowing inside their home for about five days. The neighbors invited Wertenberger to come search their home, and she found the feline stuck in the fireplace damper.

“She’s a big cat, I didn’t think she could fit down a chimney,” Wertenberger told KEPR-TV.

Wertenberger took Piper to a veterinarian, who said the cat was dehydrated and had lost about 7 pounds during the time she was missing…”

Which is curious, because, forgetting about food, to the best our searching skills, we’ve yet to find any source which would indicate a cat could last more than four days without water.   Which tells us, though it makes for a touching tale, Piper wasn’t in the neighbors’ chimney the entire time.  Regardless, we’re happy Piper’s back with her human.

Magoo

Video of the Day

The aspect of the truth Lester purports to promote, and which he’s deliberately omitting, is its BASIS is whatever propaganda Progressives instruct him to peddle. What an utterly despicable, arrogant ass.

Tales of The Darkside

A teacher uses his position to force his twisted worldview on his students. As Matt Walsh observed, this is brainwashing in real time.

On the Lighter Side

Revised F-18 launch checklist: “Let’s see, I’ve taxied onto the #4 waist cat…under tension…wiping out the cockpit…saluting the Cat Officer…here comes the stroke…I’m airborne…what’ve I forgotten? Oh, yeah, FIRE ONE!”



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